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LAUSD Parent Lawsuit

For over 40 years, Los Angeles Unified School District has ignored state law at the expense of kids. The ignored law is simple –evaluations of adults employed to educate kids must include information on how well those children are doing.

In the fall of 2011, a group of parents united to sue the district to force it to finally follow the law. Learn more about the parents’ efforts on this site. Stay tuned to learn how you can help push LAUSD to finally include student achievement in the evaluations of administrators and the teachers they support.

Learn about the implementation of the agreement to comply with the law here.

Read the respondents first Return to the Writ of Mandate submitted September 4, 2012 here.

Following the win in court, the judge has issued a writ of mandate, ordering LAUSD to follow the law include measures of student progress in educator evaluations. Read it here.

Read about the finalized ruling here – in a big win for kids, the district is now under court order to include measures of student achievement in educator evaluations.